How Do L.A. and Berlin Deal With Their Pasts?
Describing his impressions of Berlin’s rapid, sometimes unplanned and bottom-up redevelopment in the last two decades, architect Roger Sherman made an analogy apt, even uncomfortably so, for Los Angeles. “It’s something like a fire,” he said to the standing-room-only crowd at the Aedes Gallery in Berlin, at a Zócalo panel co-presented with the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West. Such development was, he added, more impressive than “any of the individual monuments, however interesting they were.” Sherman joined moderator Peter Tokofsky; urban historian Greg Hise; GRAFT Architects Founding Partner Wolfram …
